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Islanders 5 Oilers 2
Rule #1 in flight club. Don't acquire a player you previously owned (e.g. Brandon Davidson) that's just bringing back old wounds. Oilers acquired previous Oiler Sam Gagner. Not only is he is about 30 years old, but his career +/- is -112. He is not going to improve this statistic as an old man. Nice to see Oilers are up to their old tricks of continuing to purchase horrible +/- players and wondering why they are still losing?
In the first minute of the first period instead of Kassian passing it to McDavid who was barrelling across the blue line, Kassian made McD go and have to chase after the puck behind the net. Why is Kassian with McDavid? That combination has not worked ever!
The tradition of stupid trades continues! Sam is the guy Oilers traded whose +/- was -29 then he was -28 for Arizona. Wow! This is a player Oilers want? It's a comedy of errors.
Get rid of...
Larsson -16
Pulju -14
Brodziak -13
Nurse -12
Lucic -11
RNH -11
Petrovic -7 in 9 games
Management is not willing to do what must be done, because they are clueless. Bob Nicholson must be fired! Assuming Keith Gretzky and Bob Nicholson approved this Sam Gagner trade, then Bob and Gretzky are the problem.
The team must be blown up! even though last year Bob Nicholson said, "I will not blow up the team."
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Don't forget to fire Craig MacTavish and Kevin Lowe, the old buys club. Just their very presence on the Oilers is toxic! How many more years as failures must this be realized? This could be the most incompetent group of individuals the NHL has ever seen as it has gone on for so long. Only one player on the Oilers has a positive +/- and that is Benning. Good for him! How does acquiring a horrible +/- player (Sam Gagner) solve this problem?
I looked at the very last pace team in the NHL Ottawa Senators and was curious to see if they have any positive +/- players. They have 5 positive players.
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Oilers are beating a dead horse. Solution? Get rid of...
Larsson -15
Pulju -14
Brodziak -13
Lucic -12
Nurse -12
Petrovic -7 in 9 games
When you get rid of the worse +/- players on the team that makes the job for everyone else easier. And you don't add to the problem by acquiring even more terrible +/- players like Chiarelli was apt to do.
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Oilers 3 Islanders 2 OT
Rattie – McD – Kassian
RNH – Draisaitl – Chiasson
Rieder – Cave – Gagner
Lucic – Brodziak – Currie
Klefbom – Larsson
Nurse – Russell
Sekera – Benning
Limiting Brodziak to 7 minutes, Lucic to 12 min. and Currie to 9 helps out a lot.
This is Oilers dream team defense, no injuries. I really don't care what the lines are for offense. Six of one or half a dozen of the other.
Oilers are 2 1/2 games behind the Wild Card.
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Oilers 4 Blue Jackets 0
It doesn't really matter what the lines are because everyone sucks. At least for the rest of the season keep Draisaitl playing with McDavid to allow them to maximize their points.
Draisaitl – McDavid – Kassian
Lucic – RNH (-13) – Chiasson
Rieder – Cave – Currie
Gagner – Brodziak (-13) – Rattie
Since RNH is not a good center, indicative of always having a poor +/-, put him on the line with McD and Draisaitl.
Klefbom – Larsson (-16)
Nurse (-10) – Russell
Sekera – Benning
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Toronto 3 Oilers 2
All I want to say about this game is Nurse is an idiot. With a few seconds left in the game he could have shot it on net and could have gotten a deflection to score, but instead he passed it off along the side of the boards which they had no time to afford to do that. The team could have converged on the goalie if Nurse shot it on net. Nurse has low hockey IQ. I was trying to see who it was who was so dumb, and it was #25 who passed it along the side the boards.
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Get rid of these players...
Larsson -22
RNH -16
Pulju -14
Brodziak -12
Khaira -11
Nurse -10
Lucic -9
Petrovic -7 in 9 games
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Blow up the team. The 10 worst players on the Oilers...
Larsson -23 only 18 points this season so far
RNH -15
Pulju -14
Brodziak -12
Khaira -11
Lucic -8
Nurse -8
Petrovic -7 in 9 games
Rieder 0 goals in 61 games
If the new CEO who replaces Bob Nicholson doesn't get rid of these players it will be a repeat of this last season.